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WORK EXPERIENCE

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), HIV/AIDS and Adolescents Section, Dili, Timor-Leste Assistant to the National Awareness Campaign   2006

• Assisted the Ministry of Health to organize the second National Congress on HIV/AIDS, February 2006

• Acted as liaison between the Theme Group on HIV/AIDS and fund recipients

• Edited the National HIV/AIDS/STIs Strategic Plan and documents relating to it

• Created GIS maps of HIV/AIDS prevention activity in Timor-Leste using GIS mapping software ArcView

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) , Resident Coordinator Unit, Dili, Timor-LesteResearch Assistant to the Theme Group on HIV/AIDS  2005

• Gathered, recorded, and organized a database of information on HIV/AIDS activities in Timor-Leste

• Set up meetings and interviewed every institution in Dili working on HIV/AIDS

• Assisted the Ministry of Health to organize the first National Congress on HIV/AIDS, December 2005

• Assisted the We Care taskforce to organize and implement an in-house HIV/AIDS prevention initiative

Institutional Capacity Development Unit, United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) , Dili, Timor-LesteIntern – Donor Report Compiler 2005

• Worked closely with the head of the unit to compile and write quarterly donor reports

• Supervised new interns

United Nations Development Programme , Governance Unit, Dili, Timor-LesteIntern  2005

• Created a table summary of the unit’s revenues and expenditures according to its own records and

according to headquarters records; devised methods to reconcile the two figures

• Developed short, one- or two-page summaries of several Sector Investment Programme documents

University of Pennsylvania Center for Hispanic Excellence (La Casa Latina) , Philadelphia, PA 

Publicity Coordinator  2002-2005

• Planned marketing strategies and a promotion campaign for all center events

• Designed advertisements for all center events, including graphics and copy

• Served as a center liaison with other university departments

• Supervised and trained work-study students and interns

• Maintained and edited center’s website (www.vpul.upenn.edu/lacasa), brochures and newsletter

Help Me Rhonda Advertising, Philadelphia, PA Graphic Design Coordinator  2004-2005

• Designed Annual Fund brochure for the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf 

• Organized and coded website for Lynne’s Copywriting (www.lynnescopywriting.com)

Daniel Alejandro González334 E 26th St Apt 14B1 • New York, NY 10010-1901

347.571.3697 • dag376@nyu.edu

EDUCATIONNew York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences , New York City, NY May 2008

• Candidate of Master of Arts in Economics

• Relevant coursework: Intermediate and Advanced Statistics and Econometrics, Latin American Economics,

Development Economics

University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences , Philadelphia, PA May 2004

• Bachelor of Arts in Economics

• Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics

• Relevant coursework: Public Finance, International Trade, Marketing Research, Consumer Behavior,

 Advertising Management, Visual Communication, Digital Imaging

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming/scripting languages: Stata, HTML, CSS, PHP

• Software: MS Office, ArcView, Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, Dreamweaver/Flash MX, Acrobat

• Operating Systems: Windows, MS-DOS, Mac OS X, Unix (Solaris), Telnet

L ANGUAGE SKILLS

• Native English and Spanish

• Proficient in Portuguese and French. Basic knowledge of Tetum and American Sign Language